Regulation has always been part of organisational life, but in recent years the pace of change has accelerated beyond what many finance teams can comfortably manage. New ESG reporting standards, escalating data-governance expectations, stricter audit rules, and an expanding list of sector-specific obligations have turned compliance into a constantly shifting landscape. In this environment, many organisations find themselves working harder than ever to keep up.
Despite this reality, many organisations still rely on ageing financial systems, heavy manual work in Excel, and processes that were never designed for today’s level of scrutiny. These limitations introduce risk, slow down reporting cycles, and undermine confidence in the financial figures. The organisations that thrive today are those that have moved away from viewing compliance as a periodic administrative burden. Instead, they treat it as a strategic capability enabling them to respond quickly to change, maintain stakeholder trust, and operate with far greater resilience.
The Evolving Compliance Landscape
Three major developments are reshaping the way organisations think about compliance. The first major development is that ESG and sustainability reporting are no longer optional. Legislation such as CSRD is forcing organisations to gather, validate, and publish non-financial data with the same level of detail and reliability as their financial statements. The second major development is that regulators are paying much closer attention to how data is governed. They expect organisations to demonstrate control over data accuracy, access permissions, auditability, and the journey data takes through the organisation. Manual spreadsheets and disconnected systems cannot provide that level of integrity. Lastly, sector-specific compliance, whether around safety, funding, asset management or public accountability, is becoming more frequent, more digital, and more demanding.
This is no longer about preparing once a year for an audit. Compliance has become a continuous state, requiring organisations to have systems and processes in place that can keep pace.
Where Compliance Breaks Down
For many finance teams that use Infor SunSystems, the real compliance challenge isn’t the regulation itself—it’s the operational reality of working with processes and structures that have grown increasingly complex over time. Although SunSystems remains a robust and trusted financial management solution, organisations often surround it with fragmented third-party tools, manual workarounds, and spreadsheet-driven processes. This patchwork approach makes it difficult to consolidate information, verify data lineage, or maintain a clear view of who changed what and when.
Manual data entry, journal uploads, and Excel-based reconciliations introduce avoidable risk and consume precious time. Reporting frequently relies on bespoke spreadsheets that only a few individuals fully understand, which creates bottlenecks and single points of failure. And while SunSystems provides strong core financial controls, older configurations and unoptimised setups can lack the automated workflows, approval routes, and audit trail enhancements required for today’s governance standards.
These weaknesses create a recurring cycle of pressure: last-minute reconciliations, repeated data validation rounds, reactive interactions with auditors, and an underlying anxiety that something important has been missed. With regulatory expectations rising year-on-year, this disconnected approach is no longer sustainable.
TouchstoneFMS helps organisations break this cycle by modernising how SunSystems is used, connected, and governed, ensuring it becomes a tool for compliance strength, not a source of compliance risk.
Compliance Built In, Not Bolted On
TouchstoneFMS adopts a strategic approach to enhance the compliance capabilities of Infor SunSystems. Using tools like Yooz, which integrate smoothly with SunSystems, organisations can achieve high security and compliance levels. Features such as YoozFakeDetection automatically identify document fraud, forged documents, invoices, and orders. They also authenticate original documents and automatically detect duplicates and inconsistent data based on usage patterns, among other compliance features.
Everything begins with . By optimising SunSystems’ core design, its dimensional chart of accounts, security model, and transaction structure, we ensure financial data remains consistent, traceable, and permission controlled. Every entry carries a full audit trail, giving organisations clarity over who made changes, what was updated, and why.
Building on this foundation, TouchstoneFMS enhances visibility across the organisation. Real-time reporting through tools such as Infor EPM combined with dashboards and integrated analysis, allows finance teams to monitor compliance indicators continuously rather than waiting for period-end surprises. Risks and anomalies become easier to detect, investigate, and resolve.
Automation is another essential element. TouchstoneFMS leverages SunSystems features such as approval workflows, structured journals, automated postings, and controlled integrations to replace manual, error-prone tasks. Reconciliations run faster, approvals become consistent and auditable, and exceptions are surfaced early, long before they escalate. Compliance becomes woven into the daily operation of SunSystems, not an additional burden.
What truly differentiates TouchstoneFMS is the deep expertise behind the technology. Our consultants understand not only SunSystems but also the regulatory pressures facing sectors such as housing, nonprofit, education, financial services, and other regulated industries. We use this knowledge to configure systems that reflect real-world compliance needs, ensuring SunSystems supports your organisation’s responsibilities today and evolves seamlessly as new regulations emerge.
The Strategic Opportunity Behind Compliance Excellence
When organisations strengthen their compliance maturity, the benefits extend far beyond meeting regulatory requirements. A structured, automated compliance framework lowers overall risk, from audit outcomes to reputational exposure. It reduces the cost and effort involved in managing compliance, freeing finance teams from time-consuming manual processes. Most importantly, it creates organisational agility. When a regulation changes—or a new one emerges—the finance system is ready for it.
Compliance becomes a source of competitive advantage rather than a drain on resources andorganisations can operate with greater confidence, knowing their decisions are informed by accurate, trusted data.
Why TouchstoneFMS
As regulation becomes more complex and interconnected, organisations need a partner who understands both the financial engine room and the wider governance environment. TouchstoneFMS provides the technology, implementation expertise and ongoing support required to keep organisations compliant today, and ready for tomorrow. Experts at implementing systems designed to evolve at the pace of regulation and consultants who understand industry-specific pressures, TouchstoneFMS delivers compliance not just as a requirement, but as a foundation for stronger, smarter financial management.
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